Critter News
JULY 2, 2009
Supervisor Chris Daly made an unsuccessful attempt to force the zoo to become a rescue facility, legislators questioned the zoo's management, and the zoo's director was ousted. Animal experts descended for investigations of their own, and employee morale sank to an all- time low. Now, facing a $2.2
10,000 Birds
JUNE 12, 2019
Now, I do hope you have stayed with me to this point, because there is a moral to this story: How much do you like your ducks, grebes, sandpipers, and plovers? Perhaps you like them enough to have supported legislation protecting wetlands in the United States and Canada.
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Animal Person
JUNE 27, 2009
The moral of the story is that it's all about the way we farm animals, not that we farm them that is what needs changing. Our own legislators have put us in this position because they and their friends benefit from it. There's no remotely vegan or even vegetarian (though I'm not even sure what the latter would look like) message.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 30, 2012
In the United States, most believe that gaining personhood is much more probable through legislative enactment than through a constitutional change. Why the common law over legislation? Unlike legislators, judges are at least formally bound to do justice. What is the common law?
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
A new willingness among scientists to consider certain moral and ethical implications with respect to wild animals, where previously utilitarian ideas prevailed, including ideas of intrinsic value. Serious examination of the national funding paradigm and how it contributes to the conservation choices made on both federal and state levels.
Animal Person
FEBRUARY 5, 2010
If you eat meat you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (I’m setting cannibalism aside here.). I repeat: If you eat meat (I'd say: products that come from animals) , you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (i.e., Or pig, or duck, or fish.
Animal Person
MARCH 9, 2010
By pairing humane with slaughter , legislators have sanctioned horrific cruelty and mass murder. I'd rather extend moral consideration to something that can't suffer than fail to extend it to someone who can" (154). What if slaughter were freed (miraculously) of all terror and pain? Overly generous inclusion?
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